U.S. Hockey Gold Medal Win Breaks TV File, Averages Over 20 Million Viewers

A TON of American followers set their alarms to catch the Crimson, White and Blue’s gold medal win … with NBC saying the 2026 Winter Olympics finale averaged 20.7 million viewers!!

The parents over on the Peacock launched the numbers for the competition on Tuesday … saying the sport was the most-watched pre-9 AM ET sporting occasion in U.S. historical past.

The viewers solely grew as soon as the showdown reached extra time — with the community saying “An astounding average of 26.0 million viewers on NBC and Peacock were watching between 10:45-11 AM ET” as Jack Hughes scored the game-winning objective … which ended a 46-year gold medal drought for the lads’s staff.

Just one sport nonetheless stands because the community’s most-watched hockey sport ever … with the 2010 Vancouver Olympic showdown between the U.S. and Canada’s males’s groups holding the highest spot — so Hughes and Co. must accept silver on that one.

On the ladies’s facet, it was introduced beforehand that the USA’s showdown towards Canada within the gold medal contest drew a median of 5.3 million viewers. Like the lads’s sport … these numbers fell simply wanting the 2010 Vancouver Olympic finale between ‘Merica and the neighbors up north — which averaged 7.5 million viewers.